In the Company of Books: Literature and Its “Classes” in Nineteenth-Century America; Tolerable Entertainment: Herman Melville and Professionalism in Antebellum New York; Writers in Retrospect: The Rise of American Literary History, 1875–1910

Sean McCann; In the Company of Books: Literature and Its “Classes” in Nineteenth-Century America; Tolerable Entertainment: Herman Melville and Professionalism in Antebellum New York; Writers in Retrospect: The Rise of American Literary History, 1875–1910. American Literature 1 December 2009; 81 (4): 842–844. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-051